COUPDATE II: YOUR SOURCE FOR ALL THE HAPPENINGS

[Bacon King]

This is a central thread to keep up with the happenings

First with background!

• Griffin notices that the Pacific needs a booth open and the government is hella inactive, which causes the Chief Judicial Officer to declare an emergency voting booth (I move to the Pacific to try to weasel in a last-minute governor bid but that doesn't work out).
  
  
• Chief Judicial Officer Ebowed installs himself as acting governor and council due to the inactivity crisis, implementing numerous legislative proposals and also places Governor Simfan under arrest for abusing the power of his office.
  
  
• Senator Turkisblau creates the Pacific Movement for Radical Change to support CJO Ebowed's transformative proposals while Governor Simfan spouts incoherent messages from jail
  
  
• Holding a press conference in his prison cell, Governor Simfan announces that he is removing CJO Ebowed from office effective immediately, however extensive research by noted constitutional scholar Adam Griffin reveals that Simfan doesn't actually have the constitutional authority to do that.
  
  
• In the midst of all this fighting, the emergency alert system starts blaring but nobody is quite sure why
  
  What will happen next? COUPDATE IS ON THE CASE
  
  
• BREAKING NEWS: Turkisblau reported to be under arrest by the Federal government and a warrant is also placed for the arrest of CJO Ebowed by the Attorney General
  
  
• Governor Simfan files a writ of habeas corpus with the Supreme Court, demanding that his charges be dropped
  
  
• BREAKING: Pacific Emergency activation deemed to be false alarm, caused by "assholes ... messing with the EAS"
  
  
• OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD NUKES ARE INBOUND FROM RUSSIA: DISPERSAL PATTERN INDICATES FIRST STRIKE ATTEMPT TO DISABLE OUR OWN MAINLAND NUCLEAR COMMAND STRUCTURE and is definitely totally not a false alarm like the thing in the Pacific was
  
  
• The nukes might also be from China, Korea, or Japan, clarifies Game Moderator Kalwejt - not necessarily from Siberia or Russia at all
  
  
• Senator Blair blames North Korea, demands immediately retaliation via Patriot missiles to ensure that justice is served against the rogue state
  
  
• President bore declines to fire back and attempts to intercept the missiles instead
  
  
• Two missiles shot down while Colorado Springs and Fairbanks are hit - with 13,000 casualties reported. One missile unaccounted for.
  
  
• BREAKING: the final missile determined to be inbound on a course to impact in Bakersfield, California, home of notorious forum troll Kyle Mercado
  
  
• 61,000 dead in Bakersfield, bringing the death toll up to 74,000
  
  
• Ebowed remains in hiding, only ruling the Pacific via decrees from his undisclosed location. President bore has yet to make any substantive statement, according to GM Kalwejt.
  
  
• BREAKING: Numerous prominent Atlasians, including TNF and Nix, are demanding the resignation of Game Moderator Kalwejt
  
  
• Game Moderator Kalwejt accepts full responsibility, nullifies nuclear attack, and resigns
  
  
• NOW BACK TO THE PACIFIC
  
  
• Supreme Court Justice Oakvale demands Simfan be released from the Pacific and transferred into the custody of the Supreme Court
  
  
• Chief Judicial Officer Ebowed complies with the court order and is currently preparing to make a case that he has lawfully held Governor Simfan under arrest

[Türkisblau]

I'm arrested by the federal government fascists

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Thanks for the info, BK!

[Bacon King]

BREAKING NEWS: Turkisblau reported to be under arrest by the Federal government

[Simfan34]

My message was extremely comprehensible. Also keep in mind when exactly I was arrested and how that fits in the time-frame. And my habeas corpus petition.

[Bacon King]

My message was extremely comprehensible. Also keep in mind when exactly I was arrested and how that fits in the time-frame. And my habeas corpus petition.

i am trying my best

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

My message was extremely comprehensible. Also keep in mind when exactly I was arrested and how that fits in the time-frame. And my habeas corpus petition.

Dude, be careful before they put you in a hole.

[Simfan34]

My message was extremely comprehensible. Also keep in mind when exactly I was arrested and how that fits in the time-frame. And my habeas corpus petition.

Dude, be careful before they put you in a hole.

"They" are wanted criminals.

[Lincoln Republican]

But if Governor Simfan is derelict in his duties, then he should be impeached, not arrested and imprisoned.

[Bacon King]

updated OP!

But if Governor Simfan is derelict in his duties, then he should be impeached, not arrested and imprisoned.

The warrant for arrest issued by CJO Ebowed was for treason in addition to "criminally abusive neglect of office

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

updated OP!

But if Governor Simfan is derelict in his duties, then he should be impeached, not arrested and imprisoned.

The warrant for arrest issued by CJO Ebowed was for treason in addition to "criminally abusive neglect of office

It ought to be noted that, whether his arrest was lawful or not (neutral moderate hero), Simfan is still under arrest by the forces loyal to Ebowed.

[Bacon King]

updated OP!

But if Governor Simfan is derelict in his duties, then he should be impeached, not arrested and imprisoned.

The warrant for arrest issued by CJO Ebowed was for treason in addition to "criminally abusive neglect of office

It ought to be noted that, whether his arrest was lawful or not (neutral moderate hero), Simfan is still under arrest by the forces loyal to Ebowed.

yes, i am just reporting the facts while attempting to refrain from editorial slant

[Bacon King]

help how do i fix the formatting at the end of the OP it isn't allowing an empty line between bullet points anymore

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

help how do i fix the formatting at the end of the OP it isn't allowing an empty line between bullet points anymore

if you put some kind of formatting (a link, bolding, etc) in the second-to-last item it'll work. don't ask me why

[Bacon King]

Updated death toll

[Bacon King]

help how do i fix the formatting at the end of the OP it isn't allowing an empty line between bullet points anymore

if you put some kind of formatting (a link, bolding, etc) in the second-to-last item it'll work. don't ask me why

Thanks!

[Bacon King]

Updated title to reflect newly broadened scope. Reporters on standby to cover reactions from all atlasian officials (but they seem to all be deep in their bunkers right now)

[Bacon King]

OP updated again, RIP Kalwejt

[Bacon King]

now back to the pacific